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Bill Gates...belileves effective teachers are key to children's futures. WASHINGTON: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $US335 million investment in teacher effectiveness in three large US school systems and some public charter schools.

What's the most wrongheaded conclusion anyone ever came to concerning computers? I covered three of the most legendary ones-"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home," "640K should be enough for anybody," and "I think there is a worldwide market for maybe five computers" in The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History .

In a memo to employees, Jody Allen, Paul Allen's sister and the CEO of his investment firm, said the 56-year-old received the diagnosis early this month.

Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer team has graduated from being a pet project of founder Bill Gates to a group that stands up on its own, and contributes back into other parts of Microsoft.

A: Be careful. Some people erroneously think of Warren Buffett's company as a kind of mutual fund, since he owns stock in a bunch of companies, such as Wells Fargo, Kraft, Nike and ConocoPhillips.

Given the choice, most international business travellers would opt to have Oprah Winfrey in the seat next to them, according to a new survey.

A philanthropist and former Microsoft Corp. executive who built a big-time company with small-town people is the recipient of North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award.

It's official. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will provide the Hillsborough School District a $100 million dollar grant to improve teacher training, recruitment and pay.

Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality - from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay.

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Executive VP & COO of CSX Corp. Tony L Ingram sells 50,000 shares of CSX on 11/17/2009 at an average price of $50 a share.

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As Windows 2000 was being developed in the second half of the 1990s, Microsoft was firmly focused on building in as much functionality as possible, in a play to push Novell Netware aside and establish Windows NT as the operating system for the business world.

A Chinese court has found Microsoft Corp infringed a Chinese company s intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems.

The Integral Fellows program recognizes and supports Microsoft alumni who have made a meaningful difference to others by contributing to the community.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In a memo sent to employees, the CEO of Allen's investment firm says the 56-year-old Allen received the diagnosis this month and has begun chemotherapy.

Warren Buffett , the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:49am EST -Investor Warren Buffett whispers to Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates as the two appear together for a town hall style meeting with business students broadcast by the the financial television network CNBC at Columbia University in New York, November 12, 2009.

Bill Gates can't say enough about his BFF, CEO of the Decade Steve Jobs. In a CNBC interview on Thursday, Gates offered his considered opinion that Jobs saved Apple from almost certain doom.

By Kevin McLaughlin , ChannelWeb 5:20 PM EST Thu. Nov. 12, 2009 Wall Street executive salaries are "often too high," but that's more the fault of the U.S. government than of the companies themselves.